Senior Leader - Valuation Audit - BFS

Our client is leading international bank seeking a Valuation Risk Internal Auditor who can conduct reviews and audits of valuation processes, models, and controls across different business areas and assess the risk using knowledge and understanding of investment banking businesses and market risk.

This is for a senior leadership role working with very senior stakeholders and possess great collaborative skills to work in partnership with the teams like IT, Modelling, Risk and Valuation Control.

Some of the key responsibilities will include:

- The successful candidate will work with the front office (1st line) and control functions (2nd line) with a focus on the Investment Bank. This role will include monitoring valuation risk using data in addition to ongoing interaction with 1st and 2nd line contacts, as well as keeping up to date with market and regulatory developments. The Internal Auditor will prepare reports of audit findings for senior management and provide practical, innovative, and value-added solutions to issues identified.

To be eligible for this role you will require:

- The successful candidate should have a university degree with a quantitative focus relevant to finance and valuation, several years of relevant experience, including experience in audit, valuation control or a closely related area, with an understanding of audit methodology and/or understanding of valuation risks.

- The Internal Auditor should have strong analytical skills and willingness to keep up with industry, regulatory developments and learn new concepts and methods.

- They should have an understanding of investment banking operations and regulations.

- Excellent communication skills.

- Relevant 10+ years of relevant experience in a financial service.

- The ideal candidate is risk-focused, capable of using data analytics to gain insights into trading portfolios and risk, an excellent communicator, able to effectively communicate at different levels of an organization, verbally and in writing, a committed team player, reliable when working independently, with sound judgment for when to escalate issues, able to prioritize and balance their own workload with strong time management skills, curious, and willing to discover all aspects of the bank, with the ambition to advance their career in an international environment.